Australian Foreign Identity
Australian Immigration Policies This is the fourth of four blogs focusing on four topics discussed in my tutorial classes in HT120 (Introduction to Australian History) at Christian Heritage College. According to a page on the Australian Parliament's website , the first federal immigration portfolio was created in 1945...ironically, right after the end of World War Two. As stated by an Australia-Explained article , more than 3 million people migrated to Australia between the years 1947 and 1970. This meant that a population of 7 million in 1945 became about 12.5 million in 1970, and apparently 'most of that growth was courtesy of the migrants.' Strangely, the 'Convention relating to the Status of Refugees', according to the Australian government, was only formerly put in place in 1951; this was six years after the end of the Second World War. migrants travelling to Australia in the late 1940s Since then, however, there has been no shortage of r...